Re: what happens when the kernel stack overflows?

2008-04-25 Thread Rene Herman
On 24-04-08 17:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote: as a related thread to the earlier one, is there any protection against the kernel stack extending downwards until it overruns the thread_info structure? Not really no. There's some debugging infrastructure which can warn but basically, you just

what happens when the kernel stack overflows?

2008-04-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
as a related thread to the earlier one, is there any protection against the kernel stack extending downwards until it overruns the thread_info structure? i'm skeptical that there's *any* call chain in kernel code that would suck up that much kernel stack, but i'm just curious. rday --